My fifth Christoval Alvarez novel, Suffer the Little Children, has just been released as an audiobook, and writing it involved research into the Elizabethan poor.

Researching the problems of the Elizabethan poor, and the various attempts to solve them, proved fascinating, taking me well beyond what I needed for the story. Below are some of the things I discovered. If you’re interested in the audiobook, here are the links: